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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Very much the same thing," replied the Pump. "Young man, I preach temperance in all things. Take my advice. Give up working late at night, and play lawn tennis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ANNUAL ILLUSION. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

...RUMOR is current among the members of the Law School that their crew has a sure thing on the Class Races. Pht, keep it dark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

Beyond these rules and customs, there is only one more thing which I would criticise, and that is the practice of printing the price of the blue tickets on them. It is n't pleasant, if you wish to send a ticket to a friend, to see the price you paid stamped on it; and the practice seems wholly unnecessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

...eight and a four, and Princeton, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan will also send crews. There are certainly great advantages in having a regatta of this sort under competent management, and from all that we can learn the N. A. A. O. can supply this management. There is one thing to be considered, however, in entering any but a University crew in such a race, that any defeat for it will be considered a defeat of the University. There are many people who cannot understand that it was a Freshman, and not a University crew, that was beaten at Owasco Lake last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

...passed the old Gymnasium, I noticed that it was an entire ruin. The conductor informed me that an instructor in German had kept his marking-machine there, and one day, when he was trying to get minus fifty per cent out of it, the thing exploded. The instructor had twenty-four funerals. They buried as much of him as they could find the first time, and whenever another piece was discovered, they had an extra funeral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW GYMNASIUM. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

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